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"Horsenettle" and variants redirect here. If used for a particular species, this name usually applies to the Carolina Horsenettle
Carolina horsenettle

Carolina Horsenettle is not a true nettle, but a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade family. It is a perennial, herbaceous plant native to southeastern United States that has Invasive species throughout North America....
 (S. carolinense).
For the "Solanum Virus", see The Zombie Survival Guide
The Zombie Survival Guide

The Zombie Survival Guide, published in 2003, is a tongue-in-cheek Survivalism dealing with the potentiality of a zombie attack. Its author, Max Brooks, lays out detailed plans for the average citizen to survive zombie uprisings of varying intensity....
.


Solanum, the nightshades, horsenettles and relatives, is a large and diverse genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 of annual
Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates flowers and dies in one year. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed....
 and perennial plant
Perennial plant

A perennial plant or perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. When used by gardeners or horticulturalists, this term applies specifically to perennial herbaceous plants....
s. They grow as forb
Forb

Forbs are herbaceous flowering plants that are not graminoids . The term is frequently used in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands....
s, vine
Vine

A vine is any plant of genus Grape or, by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant. The word, derived from Latin vinea, referred to the grape-bearing variety....
s, sub-shrubs, shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s, and small tree
TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s, and often have attractive fruit and flowers.






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"Horsenettle" and variants redirect here. If used for a particular species, this name usually applies to the Carolina Horsenettle
Carolina horsenettle

Carolina Horsenettle is not a true nettle, but a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade family. It is a perennial, herbaceous plant native to southeastern United States that has Invasive species throughout North America....
 (S. carolinense).
For the "Solanum Virus", see The Zombie Survival Guide
The Zombie Survival Guide

The Zombie Survival Guide, published in 2003, is a tongue-in-cheek Survivalism dealing with the potentiality of a zombie attack. Its author, Max Brooks, lays out detailed plans for the average citizen to survive zombie uprisings of varying intensity....
.


Solanum, the nightshades, horsenettles and relatives, is a large and diverse genus
Genus

A genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the classification of living and fossil organisms. The taxonomic ranks are domain , kingdom , phylum, class , order , family , genus, and species....
 of annual
Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that usually germinates flowers and dies in one year. True annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed....
 and perennial plant
Perennial plant

A perennial plant or perennial is a plant that lives for more than two years. When used by gardeners or horticulturalists, this term applies specifically to perennial herbaceous plants....
s. They grow as forb
Forb

Forbs are herbaceous flowering plants that are not graminoids . The term is frequently used in vegetation ecology, especially in relation to grasslands....
s, vine
Vine

A vine is any plant of genus Grape or, by extension, any similar climbing or trailing plant. The word, derived from Latin vinea, referred to the grape-bearing variety....
s, sub-shrubs, shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s, and small tree
TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s, and often have attractive fruit and flowers. Many formerly independent genera like Lycopersicon
Lycopersicon

Lycopersicon was a genus in the flowering plant family Solanaceae . It contains 13 confirmed species in the tomato group of nightshades; a few others might also belong here....
 (the tomatoes) or Cyphomandra
Cyphomandra

Cyphomandra was a genus in the flowering plant family Solanaceae . It used to contain about 35 species native to countries of the Americas from Mexico southwards to Northern Argentina....
 are included in Solanum as subgenera or section
Section (botany)

In botany, a section is a low-level taxonomic rank directly below subgenus. See rank and rank . It is typically used to help organize very large genus, which may have hundreds of species....
s today. Thus, the genus nowadays contains roughly 1,500-2,000 species
Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring....
.

In particular, the green parts, including unripe fruit, are often poison
Poison

In the context of biology, poisons are Chemical substance that can cause disturbances to organisms, usually by chemical reaction or other activity on the molecular scale, when a sufficient quantity is absorbed by an organism....
ous to humans (albeit not necessarily to other animals), many bear edible fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
s, leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
, or tuber
Tuber

Tubers are various types of modified plant structures that are enlarged to store nutrients. They are used by plants to overwinter and regrow the next year and as a means of asexual reproduction....
s. Several species are cultivated, including three globally important food crops:
  • Tomato
    Tomato

    The Tomato is an herbaceous, usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins Nicotiana, potatoes, aubergine , chilli peppers, and the poisonous Atropa belladonna....
    , S. lycopersicum
  • Potato
    Potato

    The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial plant Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well....
    , S. tuberosum
  • Eggplant, S. melongena


Other species are significant food crops regionally, such as Ethiopian Eggplant and gilo (S. aethiopicum), naranjilla
Naranjilla

Solanum quitoense, known as naranjilla in Ecuador and as lulo in Colombia, is a subtropical perennial plant from northwestern South America....
 or lulo (S. quitoense), Turkey Berry (S. torvum), or the "bush tomato
Bush tomato

The term bush tomato refers to the fruit or entire plants of certain nightshade species native to the more arid parts of Australia. While they are quite closely related to tomatoes , they might be even closer relatives of the eggplant , which they resemble in many details....
es" (several Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
n species).

While most medical relevance of Solanum is due to poisonings which are not uncommon and may be fatal, several species are locally used in folk medicine, particularly by native peoples who have long employed them. Giant Devil's-fig (S. chrysotrichum) has been shown to be an effective treatment for seborrhoeic dermatitis
Seborrhoeic dermatitis

Seborrhoeic dermatitis is a skin disorder affecting the scalp, face, and torso causing scaly, flaky, itchy, red skin. It particularly affects the sebum-gland rich areas of skin....
 in a scientific study.

Solanum species are used as food plants by the larva
Larva

A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
e of some Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera

Lepidoptera is an order of insect that includes moths and butterfly. It is one of the most speciose orders in the class Insecta, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterfly, skipper , and Hedylidae....
 species (butterflies and moth
Moth

A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the Order Lepidoptera. The differences between butterflies and moths are more than just taxonomy....
s) - see list of Lepidoptera that feed on Solanum.

Systematics

The genus was established by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. Its subdivision has always been problematic, but slowly some sort of consensus is being achieved.

The following list is a provisional lineup of the genus' traditional subdivisions, together with some notable species. Many of the subgenera and section
Section (botany)

In botany, a section is a low-level taxonomic rank directly below subgenus. See rank and rank . It is typically used to help organize very large genus, which may have hundreds of species....
s might not be valid; they are used here provisionally as the phylogeny of this genus is not fully resolved yet and many species have not been reevaluated.

Cladistic analyses of DNA sequence
DNA sequence

A DNA sequence or genetic sequence is a succession of letters representing the primary structure of a real or hypothetical DNA molecule or strand, with the capacity to carry information as described by the central dogma of molecular biology....
 data suggests that the present subdivisions and rankings are largely invalid. Far more subgenera would seem to warrant recognition, with Leptostemonum being the only one that can at present be clearly subdivided into sections. Notably, it includes as a major lineage several members of the traditional sections Cyphomandropsis and the old genus Cyphomandra
Cyphomandra

Cyphomandra was a genus in the flowering plant family Solanaceae . It used to contain about 35 species native to countries of the Americas from Mexico southwards to Northern Argentina....
.

Subgenus Bassovia

Section Allophylla
  • Solanum granuloso-leprosum
Section Cyphomandropsis
  • Solanum glaucophyllum Desf. – Waxy-leaved Nightshade
Section Pachyphylla
  • Solanum betaceum
    Solanum betaceum

    Solanum betaceum, commonly known as Tamarillo, is a small tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Solanaceae. It is best known as the species that bears the tamarillo, an egg-shaped edible fruit....
     – Tamarillo
    Tamarillo

    The tamarillo, tree tomato, or tomate de ?rbol is the edible fruit of Solanum betaceum, a species of small tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Solanaceae....
  • Solanum exiguum
    Solanum exiguum

    Solanum exiguum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Bolivia....
  • Solanum roseum
    Solanum roseum

    Solanum roseum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Bolivia....


Subgenus Leptostemonum

Section Acanthophora
  • Solanum aculeatissimum Jacq. – Indian Nightshade
  • Solanum atropurpureum Schrank – Five-minute Plant
  • Solanum capsicoides
    Solanum capsicoides

    Solanum capsicoides is a flowering plant in the Solanaceae family. It is native to eastern Brazil but naturalized in other tropical regions, where it sometimes becomes an invasive weed....
     – Cockroach Berry, polohauai?i (Polynesian)
  • Solanum mammosum
    Solanum mammosum

    Solanum mammosum is commonly known as Nipplefruit, Titty Fruit, Cow's Udder, or, ambiguously, "apple of Sodom ". It is an Annual plant to perennial plant in the Solanaceae family, part of the Solanum or nightshade genus, and a relative of the tomato and potato....
     – Nipplefruit, Titty Fruit, Cow's Udder, "apple of Sodom
    Apple of Sodom (disambiguation)

    Apple of Sodom can refer to:Plants:* Calotropis procera, the original "apple of Sodom", native to Middle East* Solanum carolinense , native to North America...
    "
  • Solanum palinacanthum Dunal
    Michel Félix Dunal

    Michel Felix Dunal was a France botanist. He was professor of botany in Montpellier, France. He held the chair of Medical Natural history from 1816 to 1819....
  • Solanum viarum
    Solanum viarum

    Solanum viarum, the Tropical Soda Apple, is a Perennial plant shrub native to Brazil and Argentina with a thorny stock and thorny leaves....
     – Tropical Soda Apple
Section Anisantherum
Section Campanulata
Section Crinitum
Section Croatianum
Section Erythrotrichum
  • Solanum robustum H.L.Wendl. – Shrubby Nightshade
Section Graciliflorum
Section Herposolanum
  • Solanum wendlandii Hook.f. – Giant Potatocreeper
Section Irenosolanum
  • Solanum incompletum Dunal – Popolo ku mai (Hawaii
    Hawaii

    File:Pahoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii.jpgThe State of Hawaii is a U.S. state in the United States, located on an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia....
    )
  • Solanum nelsonii – Nelson's Horsenettle
    Nelson's Horsenettle

    Nelson's Horsenettle is an annual to perennial plant in the Solanaceae family, part of the Solanum or nightshade genus. The poisonous plant is endemic to Pacific islands....
    , Akia (Hawaii)
  • Solanum sandwicense Hook. & Arn. – Hawaiian Horsenettle, Popoloaiakeakua (Oahu
    Oahu

    'Oahu' or 'Oahu' , known as Gathering_place#Island_of_O.7B.7Bokina.7D.7Dahu_as_The_Gathering_Place, is the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands and most populous of the islands in the State of Hawaii....
    , Kauai
    Kauai

    Kauai or Kauai is the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of , it is the fourth largest of the main islands in the Hawaiian archipelago and the List of islands of the United States by area....
    )
Section Ischyracanthum
Section Lasiocarpa
  • Solanum lasiocarpum Dunal
  • Solanum quitoense – lulo (Colombia
    Colombia

    Colombia , officially the Republic of Colombia , is a country in north-western South America. Colombia is bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the north west by Panama; and to the west by the Pacific Ocean....
    ), naranjilla (Ecuador
    Ecuador

    Ecuador , officially the , literally, "Republic of the equator") is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, by Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west....
    )
  • Solanum sessiliflorum
    Solanum sessiliflorum

    Solanum sessiliflorum or Cocona is a tropical plant belonging to the Solanaceae family. The cocona plant has sturdy branches and huge, serrate and hairy leaves....
     – Cocona
Section Melongena
  • Solanum aculeastrum
    Solanum aculeastrum

    Solanum aculeastrum is commonly known as Soda Apple, Sodaapple Nightshade, Goat Apple, Poison Apple, or more ambiguously as "bitter-apple"....
     – Soda Apple, Sodaapple Nightshade, Goat Apple, Poison Apple, "bitter-apple"
  • Solanum campechiense
    Solanum campechiense

    Solanum campechiense is a plant in the Solanaceae family....
     – Redberry Nightshade
  • Solanum carolinense – Carolina Horsenettle
    Carolina horsenettle

    Carolina Horsenettle is not a true nettle, but a member of the Solanaceae, or nightshade family. It is a perennial, herbaceous plant native to southeastern United States that has Invasive species throughout North America....
    , Radical Weed, Sand Brier, Devil's Tomato, "bull nettle", "tread-softly", "apple of Sodom
    Apple of Sodom (disambiguation)

    Apple of Sodom can refer to:Plants:* Calotropis procera, the original "apple of Sodom", native to Middle East* Solanum carolinense , native to North America...
    ", "wild tomato"
  • Solanum citrullifolium
    Solanum citrullifolium

    Solanum citrullifolium is a species of Solanum commonly known as the Watermelon Nightshade, as its leaves somewhat resemble those of a watermelon plant ....
     – Watermelon Nightshade
  • Solanum dimidiatum Raf. – Torrey's Nightshade
  • Solanum elaeagnifolium
    Solanum elaeagnifolium

    Silver-leaved Nightshade or Silverleaf nightshade, Solanum elaeagnifolium, is a common weed of western North America and also found in South America....
     – Silver-leaved Nightshade, Prairie Berry, Silverleaf Nettle, White Horsenettle, Silver Nightshade, "bull-nettle", "trompillo" (Spanish); Silver-leaf bitter-apple, satansbos (South Africa)
  • Solanum heterodoxum Dunal – Melon-leaved Nightshade
  • Solanum incanum L.
  • Solanum linnaeanum
    Solanum linnaeanum

    Solanum linnaeanum is a nightshade species known as Devil's Apple and in some places where it is introduced as "Apple of Sodom "....
     – Devil's Apple, "apple of Sodom
    Apple of Sodom (disambiguation)

    Apple of Sodom can refer to:Plants:* Calotropis procera, the original "apple of Sodom", native to Middle East* Solanum carolinense , native to North America...
    "
  • Solanum macrocarpon L.
  • Solanum marginatum L.f. – White-margined Nightshade
  • Solanum melongena – Eggplant, Aubergine (including S. ovigerum)
  • Solanum rostratum
    Solanum rostratum

    Solanum rostratum is a species of plant in the genus Solanum.It forms a tumbleweed.References...
     Dunal – Buffalo Bur, Texas Thistle
  • Solanum sisymbriifolium
    Solanum sisymbriifolium

    Solanum sisymbriifolium is commonly known as Sticky Nightshade or the Fire-and-Ice plantThis plant has been used as a trap crop to protect potatoes from potato cyst nematode....
     – Sticky Nightshade, fire-and-ice
  • Solanum virginianum L.
Section Micracantha
  • Solanum jamaicense Mill. – Jamaican Nightshade
  • Solanum lanceifolium Jacq. – Lance-leaved Nightshade
  • Solanum tampicense Dunal – Wetland Nightshade
Section Monodolichopus
Section Nycterium
Section Oliganthes
  • Solanum aethiopicum
    Solanum aethiopicum

    Ethiopian Eggplant , nakati or Solanum aethiopicum is a fruiting plant of the genus Solanum mainly found in Asia and Tropical Africa....
     – Ethiopian Eggplant, Nakati, Mock Tomato, Ethiopian Nightshade; including S. gilo (Scarlet Eggplant, Gilo or jiló)
  • Solanum centrale – Australian Desert Raisin
    Australian desert raisin

    Kutjera, or Australian desert raisin is a plant native to the more arid parts of Australia. Like other "bush tomatoes", it has been used as a food source by Central Australian Indigenous Australians groups for millennia....
    , Bush Raisin, Bush Sultana, "bush tomato
    Bush tomato

    The term bush tomato refers to the fruit or entire plants of certain nightshade species native to the more arid parts of Australia. While they are quite closely related to tomatoes , they might be even closer relatives of the eggplant , which they resemble in many details....
    ",     akatjurra (Alyawarre
    Alyawarre

    Alyawarre are an Indigenous Australian people, or language group, from the Northern Territory.In 1980 they lodged a land claim with the Wakaya people, which was handed back to them on 22 October 1992....
    ),     kampurarpa (Pitjantjatjara
    Pitjantjatjara

    Pitjantjatjara is the name of both an indigenous Australians people of the Central Australian desert, and their language . They are closely related to the Yankunytjatjara language and Ngaanyatjarra language, they are also related to the Ghyeisyriieue and their languages are, to a large extent, mutually intelligible ....
    ),     merne akatyerre (Arrernte
    Arrernte

    The Arrernte are those Indigenous Australians who are the original custodians of Arrernte in the Central Australia area of Australia around Alice Springs, Northern Territory in the Northern Territory....
    ),     kutjera
  • Solanum cleistogamum – "bush tomato
    Bush tomato

    The term bush tomato refers to the fruit or entire plants of certain nightshade species native to the more arid parts of Australia. While they are quite closely related to tomatoes , they might be even closer relatives of the eggplant , which they resemble in many details....
    ",     merne mwanyerne (Arrernte)
  • Solanum ellipticum
    Solanum ellipticum

    Solanum ellipticum is known as Potato Bush and under the more ambiguous name of "bush tomato". The Arrernte name of merne awele-awele might refer to this species, and/or to the similar Solanum quadriloculatum....
     – Potato Bush, "bush tomato
    Bush tomato

    The term bush tomato refers to the fruit or entire plants of certain nightshade species native to the more arid parts of Australia. While they are quite closely related to tomatoes , they might be even closer relatives of the eggplant , which they resemble in many details....
    "
  • Solanum pyracanthon Lam. – Porcupine Tomato, Devil's Thorn
  • Solanum quadriloculatum
    Solanum quadriloculatum

    Solanum quadriloculatum is known under the common names of "bush tomato" or "wild tomato". It is a small fruiting shrub in the Solanaceae family....
     – "bush tomato
    Bush tomato

    The term bush tomato refers to the fruit or entire plants of certain nightshade species native to the more arid parts of Australia. While they are quite closely related to tomatoes , they might be even closer relatives of the eggplant , which they resemble in many details....
    ", "wild tomato" (Australia)
Section Persicariae
  • Solanum bahamense
    Solanum bahamense

    Solanum bahamense is a plant species in the nightshade family , Solanaceae. It is also known as Canker Berry, and locally as berengena de playa....
     – Bahama Nightshade, Canker Berry, berengena de playa
  • Solanum ensifolium – Erubia
Section Polytrichum
Section Pugiunculifera
Section Somalanum
Section Torva
  • Solanum asteropilodes
    Solanum asteropilodes

    Solanum asteropilodes is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum chrysotrichum Schltdl. – Giant Devil's-fig
  • Solanum lanceolatum
    Solanum lanceolatum

    Solanum lanceolatum is a species of Solanum. It is a shrub that s sometimes grown as an ornamental plant. Its flowers are light purple. It is endemism to California....
     – Orangeberry Nightshade
  • Solanum paniculatum
    Solanum paniculatum

    Jurubeba is a nightshade common in almost all of Brazil. It is used as a medicinal plant and has a bitter taste.An infusion of its Plant stem and its root in sugar cane alcohol is popularly used as an ap?ritif or a digestif....
     – Jurubeba
  • Solanum torvum
    Solanum torvum

    Solanum torvum , is a bushy, erect and spiny perennial plant used horticulturally as a rootstock for eggplant. Grafted plants are very vigorous and tolerate diseases affecting the root system, thus allowing the crop to continue for a second year....
     – Turkey Berry, Devil's Fig, Prickly Nightshade, Shoo-shoo Bush, Wild Eggplant, Pea Eggplant


Subgenus Lyciosolanum

  • Solanum guineense L.


Subgenus Solanum sensu stricto

Section Afrosolanum
Section Anarrhichomenum
Section Archaesolanum
  • Solanum aviculare – Poroporo
    Poroporo

    Solanum aviculare, commonly called Poroporo or Kangaroo Apple , is a soft-wooded shrub native to New Zealand and the east coast of Australia....
     (New Zealand), Kangaroo Apple (Australia)
Section Basarthrum
  • Solanum muricatum
    Solanum muricatum

    Solanum muricatum is a species of evergreen shrub native to South America and grown for its sweet edible fruit. It is known as pepino dulce or simply pepino; the latter is also used for similar species such as "Solanum mucronatum" ....
     – Pepino dulce, pepino melon, melon pear, "pepino", "tree melon
    Tree melon

    Tree melon is a term used for several melon-like fruits growing on trees or large shrubs as opposed to melons, which grow on vines:* Carica papaya of the Caricaceae...
    "
Section Benderianum
Section Brevantherum
  • Solanum bullatum
    Solanum bullatum

    Solanum bullatum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Brazil....
  • Solanum erianthum D.Don – Potato Tree, "Mullein Nightshade"
  • Solanum mauritianum
    Solanum mauritianum

    Solanum mauritianum is a small tree or shrub native to South America. It's common names include Woolly Nightshade, Ear-leaved Nightshade , Flannel Weed, Bugweed, Tobacco Weed and Kerosene Plant....
     – Woolly Nightshade, Ear-leaved Nightshade, Flannel Weed, Bugweed, Tobacco Weed, Kerosene Plant, "wild tobacco
    Tobacco

    Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines....
    " (Austrialia)
Section Dulcamara
  • Solanum crispum
    Solanum crispum

    Solanum crispum is also called the Chilean Potato Vine, Chilean Nightshade or Chilean Potato Tree or often just potato vine....
     – Chilean Potato Vine, Chilean Nightshade, Chilean Potato Tree
  • Solanum dulcamara
    Solanum dulcamara

    Solanum dulcamara, also known as bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, bitter nightshade, blue bindweed, climbing nightshade, fellenwort, felonwood, poisonberry, poisonflower, scarlet berry, snakeberry, trailing bittersweet, trailing nightshade, violet bloom...
     – Bittersweet
    Bittersweet

    Bittersweet refers to a combination of the standard tastes of sweetness and Basic taste#bitterness, and is often used as a metaphor for experiences which have elements of both happiness and sadness....
  • Solanum imbaburense
    Solanum imbaburense

    Solanum imbaburense is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum laxum Spreng. – Jasmine Nightshade
  • Solanum leiophyllum
    Solanum leiophyllum

    Solanum leiophyllum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum seaforthianum Andrews – Brazilian Nightshade
  • Solanum triquetrum Cav. – Texas Nightshade
  • Solanum wallacei
    Solanum wallacei

    Solanum wallacei, also known as Wallace's nightshade, Catalina nightshade, Northern island nightshade, or Wild Tomato, is a perennial plant that produces purple flowers, but otherwise resembles a tomato plant....
     – Wallace's Nightshade, Catalina Nightshade, Clokey's Nightshade, "wild tomato" (including S. clokeyi)
  • Solanum xanti – Purple Nightshade
    Purple nightshade

    Purple Nightshade or San Diego Nightshade is a semi-evergreen perennial vine, originally native to California, it can now be found in most of North America....
    , San Diego Nightshade
Section Herpystichum
Section Holophylla
  • Solanum diphyllum L. – Twin-leaved nightshade
  • Solanum pseudocapsicum – Jerusalem Cherry
    Jerusalem cherry

    The Jerusalem Cherry or Madeira Winter Cherry , Solanum pseudocapsicum, is a nightshade species with poisonous fruit. These Perennial plant can be grown decoratively as a house plant, but in some areas of Australia the plant has become a weed....
    , Madeira Winter Cherry, "winter cherry
    Winter cherry

    Winter cherry may refer to following plants, which are all Solanaceae, unrelated to actual cherries , and do not have edible fruit :* Physalis alkekengi ...
    " (including     S. capsicastrum)
  • Solanum pseudoquina (including S. inaequale Vell.)
Section Juglandifolia
Section Lemurisolanum
Section Lycopersicoides
  • Solanum lycopersicoides Dunal – Peruvian Wolfpeach
Section Lycopersicon
  • Solanum arcanum Peralta – "wild tomato"
  • Solanum cheesmaniae (L.Riley) Fosberg
  • Solanum galapagense S.C.Darwin & Peralta
  • Solanum huaylasense Peralta
  • Solanum lycopersicum – Tomato
    Tomato

    The Tomato is an herbaceous, usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, as are its close cousins Nicotiana, potatoes, aubergine , chilli peppers, and the poisonous Atropa belladonna....
  • Solanum peruvianum L. – Peruvian Nightshade, "wild tomato"
  • Solanum pimpinellifolium
    Solanum pimpinellifolium

    Solanum pimpinellifolium, also known as the currant tomato is a species of small tomato native to South America. Its small fruits are edible....
     – Currant Tomato
Section Macronesiotes
Section Normania
Section Petota
  • Solanum albornozii
    Solanum albornozii

    Solanum albornozii is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum bulbocastanum
    Solanum bulbocastanum

    Solanum bulbocastanum is a plant in the Solanaceae family, native to Mexico and parts of the Southwestern United States. It is closely related to the potato and as it has evolved strong resistance to all known varieties of potato blight, has been used to genetically engineer this resistance into the cultivated varieties of potatoes arou...
     – Ornamental Nightshade
  • Solanum bukasovii Juz. ex Rybin
  • Solanum burtonii
    Solanum burtonii

    Solanum burtonii is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum cardiophyllum – Heart-leaved Nightshade
  • Solanum chilliasense
    Solanum chilliasense

    Solanum chilliasense is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum commersonii Dunal – Commerson's Nightshade
  • Solanum demissum Lindl. – Dwarf Wild Potato
  • Solanum jamesii
    Solanum jamesii

    Solanum jamesii is a species of Solanum. Its range includes the southern United States. All parts of the plant, and especially the fruit, are toxic, containing solanine when it matures....
     – Wild Potato
    Wild potato

    Wild potato may refer to:* Several species belonging to the genus Solanum, such as Solanum jamesii, Solanum berthaultii, etc.* Thladiantha dubia ...
  • Solanum minutifoliolum
    Solanum minutifoliolum

    Solanum minutifoliolum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum paucijugum
    Solanum paucijugum

    Solanum paucijugum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum phureja Juz. & Bukasov
  • Solanum pinnatisectum Dunal – Tansy-leaved Nightshade
  • Solanum regularifolium
    Solanum regularifolium

    Solanum regularifolium is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum stoloniferum Schltdl. – Tigna Potato, Fendler's Horsenettle
  • Solanum ternatum (including S. ternifolium)
  • Solanum tuberosum – Potato
    Potato

    The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial plant Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well....
Section Pteroidea
Section Quadrangulare
Section Regmandra
Section Solanum
  • Solanum adscendens
    Solanum adscendens

    Solanum adscendens, the Sonoita nightshade, is a plant native to the Americas. It has been found in Mexico, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Corrientes in Argentina, Bahia and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, and Texas and Arizona in the United States....
     – Sonoita Nightshade
  • Solanum americanum
    Solanum americanum

    American nightshade is a herbaceous flowering plant native to the Americas, from the south and west of the United States south to Paraguay and Peru; it also occurs in Hawaii, where it is considered possibly Indigenous or may be a Canoe plants....
     – American Nightshade
    American nightshade

    American nightshade may refer to:* Solanum americanum...
    , American Black Nightshade, Glossy Nightshade
  • Solanum chenopodioides Lam. – Goosefoot Nightshade, Slender Nightshade (including S. gracilius)
  • Solanum douglasii Dunal – Green-spotted Nightshade
  • Solanum interius Rydb.
  • Solanum nigrescens M.Martens & Galeotti – Divine Nightshade
  • Solanum nigrum
    Solanum nigrum

    Solanum nigrum is a species in the Solanum genus, native to Eurasia and introduced in the Americas and Australasia.Description...
     – European Black Nightshade, "black nightshade
    Black nightshade

    Black nightshade may refer to:* Solanum americanum of much of North America* Solanum nigrum of Europe* Solanum ptychanthum of the Caribbean region...
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  • Solanum pseudogracile Heiser – Glowing Nightshade
  • Solanum ptychanthum – West Indian Nightshade, Eastern Black Nightshade
  • Solanum retroflexum – Wonderberry, Sunberry
  • Solanum sarrachoides
    Solanum sarrachoides

    Solanum sarrachoides is a species of nightshade known as the Hairy Nightshade. In California, according to the Jepson Manual Solanum key, it is differentiated by its calyx that are enlarged during fruit, but smaller when in flower....
     – Hairy Nightshade
  • Solanum scabrum Mill. – Garden Huckleberry
  • Solanum triflorum Nutt. – Cut-leaved Nightshade
  • Solanum villosum Mill. – Yellow Nightshade


Other notable species

  • Solanum amygdalifolium Steud.
  • Solanum bellum
    Solanum bellum

    Solanum bellum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum cajanumense
    Solanum cajanumense

    Solanum cajanumense is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru....
  • Solanum chimborazense
    Solanum chimborazense

    Solanum chimborazense is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum chrysasteroides
    Solanum chrysasteroides

    Solanum chrysasteroides is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum cinnamomeum
    Solanum cinnamomeum

    Solanum cinnamomeum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Brazil....
  • Solanum conocarpum Rich. ex Dunal – Marron Bacoba
  • Solanum cremastanthemum
    Solanum cremastanthemum

    Solanum cremastanthemum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum davisense Whalen – Davis' Horsenettle
  • Solanum densepilosulum
    Solanum densepilosulum

    Solanum densepilosulum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum donianum Walp. – Mullein Nightshade
  • Solanum dolichorhachis
    Solanum dolichorhachis

    Solanum dolichorhachis is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum fallax
    Solanum fallax

    Solanum fallax is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is found in Colombia and Ecuador....
  • Solanum ferox L. – Hairy-fruited Eggplant, Thai Hairy-fruited Eggplant
  • Solanum fortunense
    Solanum fortunense

    Solanum fortunense is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama....
  • Solanum furcatum
    Solanum furcatum

    Solanum furcatum is a species of Solanum known by the common name forked nightshade. It is native to South America. It is also extremely fatal to anyone who eats the berries, for they are really really toxic...
     – Forked Nightshade
  • Solanum glabratum Dunal
  • Solanum haleakalaense H.St.John
  • Solanum hindsianum Benth. – Hinds' Nightshade
  • Solanum hypermegethes
    Solanum hypermegethes

    Solanum hypermegethes is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum hypocalycosarcum
    Solanum hypocalycosarcum

    Solanum hypocalycosarcum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum interandinum
    Solanum interandinum

    Solanum interandinum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Ecuador....
  • Solanum latiflorum
    Solanum latiflorum

    Solanum latiflorum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Brazil....
  • Solanum leucodendron
    Solanum leucodendron

    Solanum leucodendron is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Brazil....
  • Solanum lumholtzianum Bartlett – Sonoran Nightshade
  • Solanum luteoalbum (including S. semicoalitum)
  • Solanum lycocarpum – Wolf Apple
    Wolf Apple

    The Wolf Apple is common in the Brazilian savanna. The plant is called lobeira or fruta-de-lobo in Portuguese language. Wolf Apples are so named because they are a favored fruit of the Maned Wolf, and may account for a large fraction of the animal's diet ....
    , fruta-de-lobo, lobeira (Brazil)
  • Solanum melissarum
    Solanum melissarum

    Solanum melissarum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Brazil....
  • Solanum nudum Dunal – Forest Nightshade
  • Solanum ovum-fringillae
    Solanum ovum-fringillae

    Solanum ovum-fringillae is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Brazil....
  • Solanum paralum
    Solanum paralum

    Solanum paralum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Brazil....
  • Solanum parishii A.Heller – Parish's Nightshade
  • Solanum physalifolium Rusby
  • Solanum pinetorum
    Solanum pinetorum

    Solanum pinetorum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Brazil....
  • Solanum polygamum Vahl – Cakalaka Berry
  • Solanum pyrifolium Lam.
  • Solanum riedlei Dunal – Riedle's Nightshade
  • Solanum rudepannum Dunal
  • Solanum rugosum Dunal – tabacon aspero
  • Solanum sibundoyense
    Solanum sibundoyense

    Solanum sibundoyense is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family.It is Endemism to Colombia, specifically the to Sibundoy and surrounding areas, and usually resides in cloud forests, 1400-2300 meters in elevation....
  • Solanum sodiroi (including S. carchiense)
  • Solanum sycocarpum
    Solanum sycocarpum

    Solanum sycocarpum is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is Endemism to Brazil....
  • Solanum tenuipes Bartlett – Fancy Nightshade
  • Solanum tobagense
    Solanum tobagense

    Solanum tobagense is a species of plant in the Solanaceae family. It is found in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela....
  • Solanum trilobatum L.
  • Solanum umbelliferum
    Solanum umbelliferum

    The small perennial shrub Solanum umbelliferum is known commonly as the blue witch nightshade, sometimes spelled bluewitch. It is one of many species of nightshade in genus Solanum, which also includes domesticated plants such as tomato, potato, and eggplant....
     – Bluewitch Nightshade
  • Solanum violaceum Ortega
  • Solanum viride Spreng. – Green Nightshade
  • Solanum woodburyi Howard – Woodbury's Nightshade


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